Now it may just be me (and others from the UK may also like to point out their experience), but I never really remember learning "grammar". Luckily my supervisor applauds my writing (although you wouldn't have guessed it by my posts....), but I never remember learning when to use the apostrophe, the comma, sentence structure etc. To me, the way I write today is from reading academic papers - not from my school days. I remember doing spelling tests, reading books and writing passages/own stories, but only have very vague memories of learning the English language (and I'm only 23, so it wasn't *that* long ago).

So maybe this is a problem. If I don't remember learning it, maybe schools are failing us (that's where the UK comes in, because I have no idea about other countries). On the other hand, it might just be. After all, I don't have the best memory and didn't really listen at school Voting has begun for "The Lord of the Rings Character Elimination Game"